Saturday, November 8, 2014

A Day of Virga

Today, due to weather conditions, the radar was full of precipitation, but no rain was found at the ground.

I was driving, and a few drops of rain hit my windshield. To the North, long streamers of virga hung from the clouds, never reaching the ground, and it was obvious the same streamers were overhead; except a few drops of rain lasted to strike my windshield.

Virga is cool to watch. (My dad is a geologist who also taught a class about climatic phenomena, so I learned about it early).

I once had the experience here, during a drought, of seeing rain fall from the clouds and then evaporate about 12 feet above the ground....you could see the drops coming down and then they'd just be gone. It was the darnedest thing I ever saw - and standing on my front porch to watch it, at that.

That made my imagination go into high gear. That's one of those experiences so unique, few realize the opportunity, or really understand what they're observing. You were lucky your dad was so interested in such things and willing to share.

The best photo I've seen of virga has a huge hole in a deck of cumulostratus clouds, with the ice droplets falling in mass. From the photo, it appears the ice sublimated, which is another interesting phenomena.

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